I get it: It's hard for two dudes to do the work of a mother.
But I'm not here to talk about the issue of two men adopting kids.
The problem is this: The nation is facing a serious supply problem. There are 500,000 shipping containers off the coast of Cali alone, just waiting to get into port. Those in port don't have drivers to get the products to warehouses and stores.
The lockdown, welfare, and energy policies of leaders like Joe Biden are crippling our entire logistics system right now, meaning the shelves on your nearest supermarket are becoming emptier and emptier.
In the midst of it, our fearless Sec. of Transportation – whose qualifications include being an unpopular mayor of a small city and being gay – has taken MONTHS of paternity leave.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has reportedly been on paid leave for months as the U.S. is facing a historic supply chain crisis that is causing pain for Americans throughout the course of their daily lives.
"While U.S. ports faced anchor-to-anchor traffic and Congress nearly melted down over the president's infrastructure bill in recent weeks, the usually omnipresent Transportation secretary was lying low," Politico reported. "They didn't previously announce it, but Buttigieg's office told West Wing Playbook that the secretary has actually been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies."
Since mid-August!!
Remember that the next time you can't find food on the shelves at Walmart for Thanksgiving. Remember that when your kids are sad their Christmas was lean this year.
I'm not against time off for having or adopting a baby. I thought it insane that I got only one day of paid leave for my first two children, considering the value I would bring to my then-employer if I was well-rested and knew my wife had the support system in place to care for the babies while I was away.
But months??? For two dudes??
Pete might be the token Midwestern gay guy that the coastal elites like to have on retainer, but he fits into the Washington Swamp like Cinderella into her glass slipper.
He has a large enough salary (not to mention government resources and security) to hire a team of nannies to help.
Salary and woke institutional privileges aside, there's something even more important:
Pete signed up to serve We The People of the United States of America.
When you take on a Cabinet role in the White House, you know it comes with certain sacrifices. That goes double in times of crisis, and triple when the crisis is in the very area you allegedly oversee.
But Pete isn't acting like a public servant. Like others in the White House, he's acting like a noble appointed by a king.
If the serfs have to deal with less food and clothes, what's it to him??
A spokesperson for the department told Politico that Buttigieg was "mostly offline" for the "first four weeks" except "for major agency decisions and matters that could not be delegated."
"He has been ramping up activities since then," the spokesperson claimed, adding that Buttigieg will "continue to take some time over the coming weeks to support his husband and take care of his new children."
If you criticize this statement, you will likely be called "homophobic," even though sex has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
So how bad is this crisis exactly?
Over $1 trillion at the moment, and it's only getting worse.
Buttigieg's absence comes as a $1 trillion pipeline of goods from Asia to the U.S. has been clogged for months, leading to skyrocketing shipping costs which are exacerbating inflationary pressures on an economy that is struggling to rebound under Democrat President Joe Biden's administration.
A new report from Moody's Analytics warns that the supply chain disruptions "will get worse before they get better."
Then again, the government created this mess and they are doing a great job of messing it up further.
Maybe it's worth paying a guy like Pete a whopping $221k a year to stay the heck away so normal people can get the problem fixed!
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